TikTok is launching an elections guide within the video-sharing app to offer users information about the 2020 us elections to assist protect against misinformation, the corporate said during a Tuesday blog post.
TikTok said the guide will give users access to information about federal, state and native candidates from BallotReady, and about the way to choose each state, from the National Association of Secretaries of State.
It will also include educational videos about media literacy and therefore the elections process from digital literacy project MediaWise.
TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been under scrutiny from US President Donald Trump’s administration over concerns about its handling of users’ data.
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“Our elections guide is made with user privacy in mind, so a user must visit the web site for a state or a non-profit for love or money that involves sharing their information, including registering to vote,” said Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s head folks public policy within the blog post. “Interactions with this guide in our app haven't any pertaining to future TikTok experiences, like recommendations or ads.”
TikTok was on Sunday granted a last-minute reprieve by a US judge, who temporarily blocked a Trump administration order set to bar Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google from offering the app for download.
Negotiations are underway to thrash out terms of a preliminary deal for Walmart Inc and Oracle Corp to require stakes during a new company to oversee TikTok's US operations.
TikTok, which says it's about 100 million monthly active US users and has increasingly become a platform for political content, also faces the challenge of protecting against misinformation and platform abuses before its first US presidential election.
This month, Reuters found videos containing false claims about mail-in voting and presidential candidates, several of which TikTok removed after they were flagged by Reuters.
The elections guide are going to be accessible from TikTok’s Discover page, on election-related search results and videos and from verified political accounts.
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